Category Archives: Apartment Building

Apartment Building, Residential

Sprinkler activates to control apartment hallway fire (Ypsilanti, MI)

The Ypsilanti Township Fire Department responded to anapartment hallway fire Wednesday afternoon. A light fixture in the hallway on the 4th floor of an apartment buildingin the 1500 block of East Clark Road caught fire Wednesday afternoon. The fire set off a sprinkler head located directly above it.

*** Blog Editor’s Note:  Tell us what you think of the coverage by annarbor.com and the comments from the Ypsilanti FD.  Of course, the sprinkler didn’t “cause” the damage, but rather it saved the apartment from experiencing a much larger fire, where the damage would have been much worse, and could have possibly caused injury or loss of life. ***

Apartment Building, Residential

Single sprinkler extinguishes grease fire (Village of Oak Creek, AZ)

Shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday, Sedona Fire District crewswere called … for a reported structure fire in a multi-unit apartmentbuilding. The first fire crews found the fire was extinguished by a single firesprinkler head that activated in the kitchen of a one-bedroom apartment.  “The fire damage would also have beensignificantly worse if not for the sprinklers,” according to SFD FireMarshal Gary J. Johnson.

Apartment Building, Residential

Arson fire extinguished thanks to fire sprinklers (Pasadena, TX)

Several fires were intentionally set in the third floor of an apartment on May 29 in the afternoon. The building’s fire sprinkler system eliminated the flames prior to the arrival of fire crews, and a suspect is in custody. No one was injured by the fire.

According to Pasadena Fire Marshal David Brannon, “If that building wouldn’t have had a sprinkler system and it being on the third floor with the wind conditions the way they were that day, the fire would have been much greater and there would have been a much greater chance for loss of life and high dollar property loss. The sprinkler system definitely saved a lot of monetary damage as well as lives that day.”

Apartment Building, Residential

Fire sprinklers credited with saving three story apartment (Melbourne, FL)

Brevard County Fire-Rescue responded to a fire call at an apartment building late Monday, May 13 to find that the fire sprinkler system had activated and contained the blaze that had started in the kitchen of one of the residences. 

Lt. Don Slayman, spokesman for Brevard County Fire-Rescue, stated, “The fire sprinklers had been activated, and they quickly prevented any further spread of fire.”

No one was injured in the fire, and resident were able to return to their apartments shortly thereafter.